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erin

kvuzet@wyrmsign.org

Joined 10 months, 2 weeks ago

she/they - queer anarchist tech weirdo - mastodon: @kvuzet@kolektiva.social - web: kvuzet.net

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2024 Reading Goal

25% complete! erin has read 13 of 52 books.

quoted Females by Andrea Long Chu (Verso Pamphlets)

Andrea Long Chu: Females (Paperback, en-Latn-US language, 2019, Verso) 5 stars

Everyone is female "When I say that everyone is female, I mean very simply that …

This book began life as an essay on a forgotten play by Valerie Solanas called Up Your Ass. Solanas is mainly remembered for two things: self-publishing the SCUM Manifesto in 1967, a darkly funny polemic against the government, the money system, all men, and most women; and shooting artist Andy Warhol at his studio, the Factory, then located on Union Square West in Manhattan, in 1968.

Females by  (Verso Pamphlets) (Page 3)

oh shit this is going to be a ride, isn't it?

wants to read Females by Andrea Long Chu (Verso Pamphlets)

Andrea Long Chu: Females (Paperback, en-Latn-US language, 2019, Verso) 5 stars

Everyone is female "When I say that everyone is female, I mean very simply that …

another random find, this time at Bookshop Santa Cruz in the Gender Studies section. It was another staff recommendation, and based on the description I suspect I will either love it or hate it. But it's a short little book and should help kickstart my reading this year.

Connie Willis: Bellwether (1997) No rating

Pop culture, chaos theory and matters of the heart collide in this unique novella from …

Found this one at Borderlands Books in San Francisco, CA. A staff recommendation tag caught my eye, specifically because the staff member in question had chosen a sacred chao as their image. I read their little recommendation blurb, then I read the back of the book, and it sounds weird and chaotic and interesting.

I'm unfamiliar with the author so I am otherwise going in blind on this one, I hope it turns out to be a good one.